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Here are some shots of our Roman holiday. If you’ve bothered to come this far, you might as well stay and watch the slide show.
We stayed in a religious guest house. In the Vatican!
Okay, technically, we stayed not in the Vatican, but on “Vatican soil.”
The Vatican walls
St. Peter’s through the Roman pines
The Pope’s house--or his window…somewhere in there.
St. Peter’s basilica
St. Peter’s ceiling
St. Peter’s side door guarded by Swiss Guards
St. Peter's altar
St. Peter’s Dome
St. Peter’s chains (different church)
St. Peter’s crane
St. Peter whose toe people have rubbed right off
St. Peter’s pal Paul
Don Bosco (founder of Mickey’s order), who probably has all his toes, though you can’t really see.
Don Bosco in his proper relationship to St. Peter
Fancy Altar
You should know this one.
Fun with marble
Rome is choc-a-bloc with obelisks. This one is St. Peter’s Square.
The mighty Tiber
Mighty tame for now
Lots of this action
Fountain in Piazza Navona
Obelisk in Piazza Navona
Café in Piazza Navona
This shot on a post card would cost you a euro, but it’s yours for free here.
Rita made me take a picture of every altar in Rome.
See what I mean?
Inside our favorite church: Sta Maria Sopra Minerva
Every wonder where priests get their priest clothes? Here.
The crowd at the Trevi Fountain, which is why there is no shot of the Trevi Fountian.
But I did get a shot of the trivial fountain.
Another obelisk
They sure have a lot of Fiats there for some reason.
The Colosseum really was colossal.
Poppy action in the Forum
The Big Sewer in the Forum
Forum
Forum
It was just cute.
Church inside a temple--lotsa that action too
Palatine Hill
Arch of Constantine
The climate is apparently pretty temperate.
View from the Palatine
More of them pine trees
Rita always finds a cat. This one wasn’t buying, though.
The Spanish Steps were full of teenyboppers.
The Quo Vadis Church
Some young religious dudes sat in the Quo Vadis and sang. Nice voices!
The Appian Way
Rita on the Appian Way.
It was just pretty.
 
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